{{Short description|Brazilian actress (1929–2025)}} {{Infobox person | name = Dorinha Duval | birth_name = Dorah Teixeira | image = Cropped_Photo_of_Dorinha_Duval.jpg | caption = | image_size = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|1|21|df=y}} | birth_place = São Paulo, Brazil | death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|5|21|1929|1|21|df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = Dorah Maraca; Chininha | known_for = | mother = | spouse = {{plainlist| *Mário Pomponet Júnior *Daniel Filho *Paulo Sérgio Garcia Alcântara}} | children = 1 | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1952–1978 }}
'''Dorinha Duval''' (21 January 1929 – 21 May 2025) was a Brazilian actress and singer, who after retirement from television and film, became an artist. She became famous for her roles in some of Brazil's most famous television telenovelas and, later, for the murder of her abusive third husband.<ref name="Globo">{{cite web |title=Dorinha Duval |url=https://memoriaglobo.globo.com/perfil/dorinha-durval/noticia/dorinha-durval.ghtml |website=O Globo |access-date=14 September 2021}}</ref>
==Early life== Dorah Teixeira was born in São Paulo, Brazil on 21 January 1929. As a teenager, she joined director Carlos Lisboa's group of dancers, performing at casinos in the interior of São Paulo state. She also sang and played the maracas, earning her the nickname of ''Dorah Maraca''. In this role she appeared in the opening show on Brazilian TV. She also became known as ''Chininha'', apparently from the Chinese appearance of her eyes. Discovered by actors Maria Irma and Juan Daniel, parents of director Daniel Filho, she joined the variety theatre, where she became a successful starlet. Her time in variety was remembered in a 2006 telenovela by Silvio de Abreu, titled ''Belíssima'', in which she made a special appearance.<ref name=Globo/><ref name="Folha">{{cite web |title=Biografia tira Dorinha Duval da sombra |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq2802200120.htm |website=Folha de S. Paulo |access-date=14 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="Memorias">{{cite web |title=Por Onde Anda? A atriz Dorinha Duval |url=https://www.memoriascinematograficas.com.br/2019/01/por-onde-anda-atriz-dorinha-duval.html |website=Memórias Cinematográficas |access-date=14 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="Aventuras">{{cite web |title=A ATRIZ BRASILEIRA QUE MATOU O PRÓPRIO MARIDO: O QUE ACONTECEU COM DORINHA DUVAL? |url=https://aventurasnahistoria.uol.com.br/noticias/reportagem/a-atriz-brasileira-que-matou-o-marido-oque-aconteceu-com-dorinha-duval.phtml |website=Aventuras na História |date=22 December 2020 |access-date=14 September 2021}}</ref>
==Acting career== Duval acted in several radio soap operas, before debuting on television. She started at the former TV network ''Rede Tupi'', as part of the cast of the ''TV de Comédia'' programme, between 1957 and 1959. She also worked for ''TV Rio'' and ''TV Excelsior''. On ''TV Rio'', she was directed by her future husband, Daniel Filho. She started working at ''TV Globo'' in 1969, in the cast of the telenovela ''Verão Vermelho'', written by Dias Gomes. In the early 1970s, she was in the cast of three of the most successful telenovelas in Brazilian television drama, all directed by Daniel Filho: ''Irmãos Coragem'' (1970), by Janete Clair, ''Minha Doce Namorada'' (1970), by Vicente Sesso, and ''Selva de Pedra'' (1972), also by Janete Clair. She also participated with Filho in a musical programme that would become famous, known as ''Times Square''. In 1973, she played in the telenovela, ''O Bem-Amado'', the first telenovela broadcast in colour on Brazilian TV. She also played the role of ''Cuca'' in ''Sítio do Picapau Amarelo'' in 1977, a children's television series first broadcast in 1977. Parallel to her television career, Duval acted in several films. Her first was ''Veneno'' (1952), starring Leonora Amar, while the best-known was ''As Aventuras de Pedro Malasartes'' in 1960, in which she starred with Amácio Mazzaropi.<ref name=Globo/><ref name=Folha/><ref name="Memorias" /><ref name=Aventuras/>
==Marriages and murder== Duval first married television director Mário Pomponet Júnior. Her second husband was Daniel Filho, with the marriage taking place in Las Vegas. They had a daughter, actress Carla Daniel, in 1965.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uol.com.br/splash/noticias/2024/11/21/filha-de-famosos-atriz-de-alma-gemea-enfrentou-duas-tragedias-familiares.htm |title= Filha de famosos, atriz de 'Alma Gêmea' enfrentou duas tragédias familiares |date=21 November 2024|website=Universo Online |access-date=2025-12-23 | language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmow.com/carla-daniel-a56986/ |title= Carla Daniel profile at Filmow |website=Filmow |access-date=2025-12-23 | language=pt-BR}}</ref> Her third husband was an advertising producer and filmmaker, Paulo Sérgio Garcia Alcântara, who was unemployed when she met him and for whom she found a job through her contacts. He was 16 years younger than Duval and she was constantly the victim of verbal abuse by him, calling her old and saying that he wanted younger women. In 1980, in a moment of anger, she responded to the insults and humiliations and shot her husband three times in their house in Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, killing him. For this she was initially sentenced to 18 years in prison, with her husband's family arguing that the crime was premeditated. She was later retried and sentenced to six years in prison, by which time it was almost time for her release.<ref name=Globo/><ref name=Folha/><ref name="Memorias" /><ref name=Aventuras/>
After release from prison, she decided not to return to acting, preferring to remain out of the limelight. She wrote an autobiography, together with Luiz Carlos Maciel and Maria Luiza Ocampo, which was released in 2002, entitled ''Em Busca da Luz - Memórias de Dorinha Duval'' (In search of light – Memories of Dorinha Duval). In this she narrated the experience of being raped at the age of fifteen, having an abortion and prostituting herself. Duval also reveals that she attempted suicide after the separation from Daniel Filho and explains why she killed her third husband. In 2006, she appeared in the final episode of the TV Globo telenovela ''Belíssima'', which paid tribute to some famous stars. In 2018, she returned to television in an event organized with veteran actors. She remained part of Globo's retired team; a group of artists still on contract but no longer working. Among other things, this provides medical insurance.<ref name=Folha/><ref name="Memorias" /><ref name=Aventuras/>
==Death== Duval died on 21 May 2025, at the age of 96.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-21 |title=Atriz Dorinha Duval, a primeira Cuca do Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, morre aos 96 anos |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2025/05/21/atriz-dorinha-duval-morre.ghtml |access-date=2025-05-21 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0245007}} * {{discogs artist|Dorinha Duval}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Duval, Dorinha}} Category:1929 births Category:2025 deaths Category:21st-century Brazilian women Category:Actresses from São Paulo Category:Brazilian film actresses Category:Brazilian television actresses Category:Brazilian female murderers